Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Mountain areas are biodiversity hotspots and provide a multitude of ecosystem services of
irreplaceable socio‐economic value. In the European Alps, air temperature has increased at …

Chinese caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) is a precious traditional medicine
which is mostly distributed on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Due to its medicinal …

Soil fungi play indispensable roles in all ecosystems including the recycling of organic
matter and interactions with plants, both as symbionts and pathogens. Past observations …

Climate change may be an important threat to global biodiversity, potentially leading to the
extinction of numerous species. But how many? There have been various attempts to …

Climate change will likely shift plant and microbial distributions, creating geographic
mismatches between plant hosts and essential microbial symbionts (eg, ectomycorrhizal …

Pedicularis longiflora Rudolph and its variant (P. longiflora var. tubiformis (Klotzsch) Tsoong)
are alpine plants and traditional Chinese medicines with important medicinal value, and …

The high-mountain lakes of the Alps, perched like glistening gems in the cradle of Europe's
most formidable mountain range, have for generations epitomized nature's majesty. These …

Climate change affects the distribution of many species, including Burgundy and Périgord
truffles in central and southern Europe, respectively. The cultivation potential of these high …

Global warming is pushing populations outside their range of physiological tolerance.
According to the environmental envelope framework, the most vulnerable populations occur …